Contemporary Examples. 1  But Turkish troops stopped these panic-stricken civilians at the Turkish border. 2  Another sign took a different approach: âI am Turkish I cannot Keep Calm.â. 3  The Kurds accuse the Turkish government of seeing them as a greater danger than Islamic militants.
This type of learning is called respondent conditioning, the learning model in which one stimulus, as the result of being paired with a second stimulus, comes to elicit a response it did not elicit just previously. Usually this new response is similar to the response previously elicited only by the second stimulus.
B.F. Skinner (1938) coined the term operant conditioning; it means roughly changing of behavior by the use of reinforcement which is given after the desired response. Skinner identified three types of responses or operant that can follow behavior.